Poncelet property and quasi-periodicity of the integrable Boltzmann system

DOI10.1007/S11005-020-01348-ZzbMATH Open1475.37062arXiv2008.03480OpenAlexW3047821089MaRDI QIDQ829959FDOQ829959

Authors: Giovanni Felder 

Publication date: 7 May 2021

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the motion of a particle in a plane subject to an attractive central force with inverse-square law on one side of a wall at which it is reflected elastically. This model is a special case of a class of systems considered by Boltzmann which was recently shown by Gallavotti and Jauslin to admit a second integral of motion additionally to the energy. By recording the subsequent positions and momenta of the particle as it hits the wall we obtain a three dimensional discrete-time dynamical system. We show that this system has the Poncelet property: if for given generic values of the integrals one orbit is periodic then all orbits for these values are periodic and have the same period. The reason for this is the same as in the case of the Poncelet theorem: the generic level set of the integrals of motion is an elliptic curve, the Poincar'e map is the composition of two involutions with fixed points and is thus the translation by a fixed element. Another consequence of our result is the proof of a conjecture of Gallavotti and Jauslin on the quasi-periodicity of the integrable Boltzmann system, implying the applicability of KAM perturbation theory to the Boltzmann system with weak centrifugal force.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03480

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvesintegrable dynamical systemsPoncelet theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, special functions (37J38)

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